Jayalakshmi Sekhar was born in August 12, 1955. Jayalakshmi Sekhar took her Initial carnatic music training from father, C.S.Krishnaswamy, on vocal and flute. Formal veena training from Sri Pudukottai Jayarama Iyer, Chennai. Jayalakshmi Sekhar took her advanced music training on techniques of veena play of Veena Vidushi Dhanammal applied to vocal style of rendering by Sangeetha Kalanidhi Dr. Sripada Pinakapani of Kurnool, Andhra Pradesh.

Jayalakshmi has been performing on the veena in Chennai since 1996 during the December Music Festivals and monthly programmes whenever possible during the year under the auspices of Sabhas and organisations like Nadabruhmam, Suswara, Naradha Gana Sabha, AIMA Chembai Centenary Celebrations, Hamsadwani’s Festivals, Indian Fine Arts Society, Karthik Fine Arts, Tyagaraja Vidwat Sabha, Nadopasana, Krishna Gana Sabha, Veena Balachander Trust Programmes, Kapali Fine Arts, Nada Inbam and Delhi Educational Trust programmes.

She has also performed in Sri Venkateswara College of Music and Dance in Tirupathi, given lecture demonstrations and recitals at Hyderabad,

Secunderabad Music Colleges, Telugu University and Vishwa Kala Parishad and Warangal Music College. She also performed in Sri Raja Rajeswary Kala Niketan, Bangalore, during Sri Rama Navami.

In May 1999, she was given the opportunity to give a lecture cum recital of the techniques of veena play on an Endowment Programme in the prestigious Madras Music Academy.

Malaysia: Jayalakshmi has been the musician and music consultant for Bharatnatyam performances for the past 13 years (on the violin, veena, flute, vocal, nattuvangam) for Sutra Dance Theatre, whose artistic director is Sri Ramli Ibrahim, renowned Bharatnatyam ,Odissi, Ballet and Contemporary Dance Exponent of Malaysia. Recently, she accompanied for the first time in Ramli’s successful, extensive Odissi Dance Tour in Malaysia with 5 other musicians from Orissa, India. She accompanies nearly all visiting musicians from India and Sri Lanka to Malaysia on the violin. Jayalakshmi also teaches vocal, veena, violin and flute for students in Kuala Lumpur

A student at all times, in the quest of learning which never stops, Jayalakshmi has had the privilege of being taught by Padmabhushan Lalgudi G. Jayaraman for the last 2 years learning his compositions of Varnams and Thillanas. She has also been learning compositions of/from the renowned Musicologist /Musician Dr VV Srivatsa and rare Kritis of Sri Muthuswamy Dikshitar.